[73]. Bartram MSS., in the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society.

[74]. Narrative of Occola Nikkanoche, Prince of Econchatti, by his Guardian, pp. 71–2, (London, 1841.)

[75]. Annals, in Louisiana Hist. Colls., p. 196.

[76]. Memoires Historiques de la Louisiane, Tome ii, p. 109.

[77]. Letters Edifiantes et Curieuses, Tome. i, p. 261.

[78]. History of Louisiana, vol. ii, p. 188, (Eng. Trans., London, 1763.)

[79]. Adair, History of the North American Indians, pp. 184, 185:—William Bartram, Travels, p. 561: Dumont, Memoires Historiques de la Louisiane, Tome i, pp. 246, 264, et al.: Bernard Romans, Natural and Civil History of Florida, pp. 88–90, (a good account.)

The Relations des Jesuits describe the custom among the Northern Indians.

[80]. Antiquities of the Southern Indians, particularly the Georgian Tribes, p. 135, (New York, 1873.)

[81]. For particulars of this see my Myths of the New World, pp. 241–2, (New York, 1876.)